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UCH interest has been manifested during the past few months in the 
Zinc mining district of Southwestern Missouri and Southeastern Kansas. 
Investors have found upon examination that a field of unequalled possi¬ 
bilities for judicious investment has been opened to them, and have been 
quick to take advantage of the opportunities thus presented. 

JOPLIN, MO. 

Joplin, Missouri, the centre of this mining district, lies about one hundred and fifty 
tSniles south of Kansas City, and three hundred miles southwest of St. Louis. It is a 
city of some 25,000 people, and is an important business point on four trunk line railroads ; 
namely, the Missouri Pacific, the Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis, the St. Louis 
and San Francisco, and the Kansas City, Pittsburg, and Gulf. 

Most excellent banking facilities, encouraged by the enormous weekly production of 
about a quarter of a million of dollars in wealth, are afforded by the Joplin National, the 
Miners’, the First National, the Bank of Joplin, and the International. As an indication 
of the volume of business, the fact may be mentioned that the deposits of the Joplin 
































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National have averaged about a million dollars for the spring and summer months of 
1899, while their capital stock is only one hundred thousand dollars. ; 

Considering the number of men who have made large fortune$ in Zinc and Lead 
mining, there are comparatively few modern buildings in this city, and like the mining- 
camps, which are mostly operated in a crude and superficial manner, there are many 
opportunities for successful investment in real estate. The Keystone Hotel is a mod¬ 
ern building to which an annex has recently been added. The city has an excellent 
system of water works, gas works, and electric plants, good sewerage, and the general 
sanitary condition is of the best. 

Driving is a pleasure in and about Joplin, from the fact that practically every street 
and road is macadamized with refuse from the mines. The country round about is hilly, 
but land is fertile and occasionally covered with a growth of hickory, oak, and elm. The 
climate is mild, seldom being severe enough to interfere with mining operations at any 
season of the year. 

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found at intervals of a few miles all over Jasper County, Missouri, and Cherokee County, 
Kansas. Webb City and Carterville, the twin cities, lying about eight miles northeast of 
Joplin, have a population of some 10,000 inhabitants, Oronogo, three miles north of 
Webb City, and the Neck, five miles further north, are the centres of very prosperous 
camps. Just across the Kansas line, eight miles west of Joplin, are Galena and Empire. 
The two cities have a population of over 10,000 inhabitants. 

One cannot go in any direction from Joplin without encountering many groups of 
houses, and most of them have their village organizations, all of which have been 
endowed with a name. 

The accompanying map, showing location of Joplin, gives an idea of the country 
famous for its Zinc and Lead production. Three-fourths of the Zinc used in and export¬ 
ed from the United States is mined within a radius of fifteen miles of Joplin, and the 
population of this district is over 70,000 people. 


NATURE OF THE ORE AND DEPOSITS. 

The principal ores mined in this district are Zinc and Lead. The former is found 



















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in larger bodies, and is therefore the most profitable. The common formation of Zinc 
ore is sulphide of zinc, or sphalerite, commonly known as “jack.” Several varieties are 
found, distinguished especially by the color, and known as resin “jack,” black “jack,” 
and steel “jack.” The chemically pure “jack” is sixty-seven per cent metal and thirty- 
three per cent sulphur, and a great part of the production of the Joplin district comes 
very near being chemically pure, the smelters realizing, after the unavoidable waste in 
smelting, an average of fifty-six per cent of spelter, or metallic Zinc. Besides the 
‘jack,” a silicate of zinc is found, called calamine, and a carbonate called smith-sonite. 
These ores are not found in large quantities. The lead is also found in two forms. 
Galena, or galenite, is the principal deposit, being a sulphide, and the other, “dry bone,” 
being a carbonate of lead. 

The “ tenderfoot” has an equal chance with the geologist in the Zinc and Lead fields. 
In no other form of mining can so little be assured from surface indications, and in no 
other mining-camp is the average of successful prospecting so high. The most highly 
developed district is in the vicinity of Joplin, but traces of mineral have been found over 
a territory of one hundred miles east and west and from twenty-five to thirty north and 














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south, along what is geologically classed as the mineral region of the Ozark uplift, being 
in fact the foot-hills of the Ozark mountains. 

The deposits of ore are irregular, being of a pockety nature, nothing like the fissure 
veins of copper, gold, and silver mining having been found in this territory. During the 
breaking-up period of the Ozark uplift the Zinc and Lead must have found its way up from 
below in the form of vapor. Coming in contact with air and water, it was precipitated 
and crystallized in its present form. Being a precipitate, we naturally find the best 
deposits along the walls of limestone, the stratum of a previous period before the break- 
ing-up process of the uplift mentioned. Naturally these breaks in the limestone follow 
no general direction, nor can they be but roughly guessed at from the surface. Pros¬ 
pecting only will determine whether a lot or claim is all solid limestone, or if there is on 
it one of these old water-courses along which the ore deposits have been made. This 
prospecting is done either by sinking shafts or by drilling, using the same kind of drills 
as are used in boring for oil and gas. From the drill cuttings is determined the nature 
and value of the ore deposits if found. When the deposits are large enough to pay, shafts 
are sunk, and drifts cut into the runs, or “ pockets.” Usually the ground is hard and no 










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timbering is required, steam and air drills being used ; at other times the heaviest of 
timbers are necessary to support the roof of the drifts. The present developments of ore 
deposits are very superficial, practically only the surface of the ground having been 
scratched. The deepest shaft in the district is less than three hundred feet, and no mines 
are worked below two hundred and fifty feet. Deep drilling shows larger faces of ore; 
the same character of flint rock in which mining operations are being made at present 
extends down to a depth of two thousand feet. 

The following table will show the percentage of drill holes which found Zinc ore at the 
various depths : — 


Number of 

D‘ pih 

Per cent 

Number of 

Depth 

Per cent 

holes drilled. 

feet. 

found ore. 

holes drilled. 

feet. 

found ore. 

500 

50 

3 

8 

700 

None 

450 

100 

8 

7 

800 

None 

400 

150 

25 

6 

900 

50 

125 

250 

34 

6 

1,000 

None 

100 

300 

None 

2 

1,100 

50 

25 

400 

None 

2 

1.200 

None 

12 

500 

75 

2 

1.400 

None 

8 

600 

50 

1 

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What the destiny of this great mining district may be can be predicted only by the 
measurements of its progress through the yielding rock, as yet but two hundred and fifty 
feet, and in a comparison with the deposits of the Old World mines of Wales, Belgium, 
and Sicily in the same class of ores, worked down to sixteen hundred and two thousand 
feet. These are now diminishing in body, to the advantage of exports from this country, 
which have jumped from 48,000 pounds of ore in 1895 to 21,000,000 pounds in 1898, to 
feed foreign smelters, and in the same time from 3,000,000 pounds to 21,000,000 pounds 
of pig metal. 

The following figures show receipts from sales of Zinc and Lead ores since 1889 : — 


1889 

$2,722,500 

1893 

$3,317,632 

1897 

$4,805,637 

1890 

3.367,687 

1894 

3,535,736 

1898 

7.590,597 

1891 

3.840.480 

1895 

3,771,979 

1899 

*5,776.373 

1892 

4,580,787 

1896 

3,867,595 




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HISTORY. 

Lead was first mined in Southwestern Missouri in 1848 in Leadville Hollow, west of 
the present location of Joplin. At about the same time mineral was discovered at 
Minersville, now Oronogo, nine miles northeast of Joplin. It was not until in the early 
seventies that any amount of prospecting was done. In that year E. R. Moffett and J. 
B. Sergeant began work on the east side of Joplin Creek, near what is now Broadway. 
Cubes of Lead were found at the grass roots, but no work was done below forty feet. 
Prospectors, miners, and merchants flowed in, and a town sprang up, which is now known 
as East Joplin. At that time the nearest railroads were at Oronogo or Baxter Springs, 
and to these points the Lead was hauled for shipment to St. Louis and Kansas City. 

During all this time miners had found in their working for Lead a “ tiff,” as they called 
it, because of its similarity to so-called mineral crystals. This was usually of a reddish 
nature, and consequently was called “ resin tiff,” or when blacker, “ black jack.” Mines 
were deserted because of the prevalence of this refuse, which was considered a curse by 
the miner. In 1872 some miners at Joplin determined to find out whether this “tiff” 





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had any commercial value, and a car-load of it was shipped to La Salle, Ill., for treat¬ 
ment. The smelter returned $15 for the car-load, telling the shippers that it was a high 
grade of Zinc ore. Gradually abandoned mines were reopened for the. Zinc ore they con¬ 
tained. The first railroad into Joplin was built from Girard, Kansas, through the coal fields 
in 1877, and was known as the Girard and Joplin Railroad ; it is now a branch of the St. 
Louis and San Francisco Railroad. It may also be noted that the first Zinc smelters in 
the Missouri-Kansas district were constructed at this time, the railroad forming the 
necessary connecting link for the successful operation of both mines and smelters. 
Year by year the development has increased, radiating further each year from the 
centre, until now the Zinc output of the Joplin district controls the world’s supply. 
This is shown more conclusively by the following table of the increase in exports of ore 
and spelter (the pig metal) : — 


Year. 

1895 

1896 

1897 

1898 


. 4,150,000 “ 
16,520,000 “ 
21,040,000 “ 


Ore. 

48,000 lbs. 


Pig Metal. 
3,060,805 lbs 
20,260,169 “ 


28.490.662 “ 
20,998.413 “ 









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There has been a constantly increasing demand for the product of the mines, as is 
seen by the following table : — 


COMPARATIVE OUTPUT OF ZINC ORE. 



1896 . 

1897 . 

1898 . 

1899 . 

January 

21,012,330 

26,257,320 

32,534,170 

43,737,340 

February 

28,346,580 

25,118.350 

32,296,890 

25.342,080 

March . 

23,335.320 

26,531.180 

34,886,590 

45.816,160 

April 

24,653.040 

27,376.520 

42.318,180 

57,066,530 

May 

26,410 660 

33,733,780 

33,165,270 

43.116,340 

June 

24,733.700 

25,362.514 

34,160.720 

52.598,360 

July . 

26 013,440 

33,452,270 

40,727,850 


August . 

28,342,300 

27,599,120 

34.310.590 


September 

28 767 850 

31,398 220 

33.958.740 


October 

31,421.220 

37.547,220 

47.451,050 


November 

26,631,520 

31,987.660 

38,356.080 


December 

24,799,580 

34,432.820 

44,402,310 


Granby 



18.166.250 



314,167,530 

355,951,060 

487,012,900 

267,676,810 

Increase 

• • • 

13.3% . 

37.1% 

22£% to July 1 















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It will be observed by comparison of the following tables that an increase in price of 
ore instead of an increase in production is accountable for the large increase in the total 
value of the output during the first six months of 1899. 

PRODUCTION AND AVERAGE PRICE OF ZINC ORE FOR 




THE 

MISSOURI 

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SAS D 

ISTRICT. 



Year. 

Tons. 

Price. 

Year. 

Tons. 

Price. 

Year. 

Tons. 

Price. 

1873 

960 

$ 9.00 

1882 

52,200 

$16.90 

1891 

143.560 

$21.60 

1874 

5,100 

10 

1883 

53,900 

17.50 

1892 

148.150 

21.76 

1875 

3.600 

12 

1884 

63,500 

18 

1893 

134 090 

20.57 

1876 

11,300 

13.50 

1885 

65,600 

17.50 

1894 

137,547 

15 

1877 

10.000 

14 

1886 

75,400 

18.50 

1895 

139.023 

16.86 

1878 

12,000 

16.50 

1887 

86.200 

19 

1896 

157,084 

19.75 

1879 

20,000 

17 

1888 

89.300 

21 

1897 

177.975 

18.62 

1880 

27,500 

16 

1889 

98,440 

21.44 

1898 

243,506 

20.96 

1881 

49.700 

16.50 

1890 

114,900 

22.51 

*1899 

133,974 

44.34 


*Six months. 


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COMPARATIVE 

VALUE OF TOTAL OUTPUT OF M 

I NE RAL 


ZINC AND 

LEAD. 




1896. 

1897. 

1898. 

1899. 

January 

$287,621 

$320,697 

$443.128 

$733,950 

February 

432,157 

349.156 

437 274 

550,720 

March . 

. . . 316,186 

329.187 

465.081 

984,922 

April 

334 180 

330.144 

615,238 

1,153,382 

May 

318.397 

426,327 

477.086 

1,011,190 

June 

245.915 

323,056 

550,966 

1,142.209 

July . . . 

236 096 

450 094 

629,484 


August . 

316.786 

366,149 

529.857 


September 

287.872 

416,661 

557,624 


October 

347.207 

547,478 

802.773 


November 

322,860 

442,986 

677,803 


December 

331.119 

468,864 

765,640 


Granby . 



218,963 



$3,867,595 

$4,805,637 

$7,390 597 

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INCREASE IN 

PRODUCTION 

OF COPPER, 

ZINC, 


AND LEAD 

• 



1880. 

1889. 

1899, estimated. 

Copper, lbs. 

60.480,000 

231,246,214 

560.000.000 

Zinc, lbs. 

46,478,000 

117,720,000 

275,000,000 

Lead, lbs. 

195,650,000 

363.934,000 

450,000,000 


The advance in price of Zinc has been less than any of the metals, with the exception 
of Lead, as shown by the following table : — 

PRICES OF METAL PER POUND IN NEW YORK IN JULY 

FOR THE FOLLOWING YEARS:— 



Copper. 

Tin. 

Lead. 

Zinc. 

Pig Iron. 

Steel Billets. 

1897 

11.11 

13.89 

2>.72 

4.32 

1897. 

10.50 

1897, 16 

1898 

11.63 

15.60 

3.95 

4.66 

1898. 

10.50 

1898, 17 

1899 

18.33 

29.63 

4.52 

5.82 

1899, 

19 

1899. 34 

Increase, 

57% 

90% 

14% 

24% 

80% 


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FROM THE INVESTOR’S STANDPOINT. 

The immense wealth-producing power of the district can best be appreciated from the 
fact that ores valued at over $80,000,000 have been taken therefrom since its discovery, 
a total of over 2,250,000 tons of Zinc and 425,000 tons of Lead, which at present values 
would reach the sum of $113,000,000. The above output has not been the result of a 
large investment of capital, but has been produced by the most primitive methods. A 
prospector with pick and shovel and a “ grub stake ” has had his chance to make a fortune. 
Even to-day, after the introduction into the district of modern machinery and better business 
methods, it does not require large capital to equip one of the best of concentrating plants. 
Mines that are sufficiently productive are provided with modern ore dressing and concen¬ 
trating plants, which cost from $5,000 to $20,000. These plants have a capacity of 
handling from thirty to two hundred tons of rough ore a day. In these plants the ore is 
hoisted from the shafts, the tubs run on cars over a trestle, and the ore is dumped into 
the crusher-bin. The ore is fed to a large crusher and then over a screen, then into 
other crushers and over screens until it is fine enough to go into the jig-boxes. These 





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jig-boxes are arranged in banks. They are filled with water, and instead of having motion 
of themselves, the water in them is in a state of constant agitation. The crushed ore 
passes into the first box, where the lead crystals, being the heaviest, at once sink to the 
bottom, and the material remaining is carried down into the next box, where the heavier 
particles of Zinc ore sink. The material continues to flow down through the boxes, of 
which there are usually two banks of five boxes each, until the finest particles of both 
Zinc and Lead ore have been extracted. The waste, or tailings, is then carried by a 
bucket elevator to the top of a tower, and runs through a trough to the distant dump pile. 
The Lead and Zinc ores are let out of the jig-boxes into troughs and carried away to 
separate bins. 

Some mines will turn out ore that will clean up from fifty to sixty per cent of ore as 
taken from the mine. The next mine may not make an average of over twenty-five per 
cent, although on solid shooting ground. Then again, large deposits of disseminated ores 
are found that will not make an average of over ten per cent. Some mines require large 
sums of money to be spent in timbering, while others have not a timber in them. The 
greatest expense in many mines is pumping, a heavy flow of water passing into them all 





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the time. However, it is often the case that a camp, or several sections of mines, will 
have a large pumping-station and shaft on it that will drain all the adjacent mines. It is 
thought that the average cost of producing Zinc ore in the district is about $10 a ton. 
The Lead ore which is found in nearly every mine is practically a clear profit to the oper¬ 
ator after the royalty is paid to the landowner. It is believed that the present cost of pro¬ 
duction will eventually be much reduced by a still more systematic method of working 
the ores. 

Many millions of dollars are represented in the developments located principally in the 
vicinity of Joplin, Webb City, Carterville, Oronogo, Galena, and Empire. 

Other sections are coming into prominence with a large production of ore; and judg¬ 
ing the mining-camp as a whole, it is practically in the same position as was the coal 
district of Pennsylvania thirty years ago. Land which is selling to-day at $25 to $50 per 
acre will undoubtedly be worth from $500 to $1,000 per acre within the next ten years. 

Millions of acres are still undeveloped, notwithstanding the fact that the smelting 
capacity is at the present time one-third greater than the output of ore and there are four 
new smelters of large capacity in the course of construction in the vicinity of Iola and 





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Cherryvale, in the natural gas belt. There is no mining-camp in the world which can show 
so few failures and so many men made rich who began mining with practically no capital. 

From 1850 to 1860 only $40,000 worth of ore was taken from the Missouri Lead and 
Zinc district and sold for about $4 per ton. The ore output for six months ending July 
1st, 1899, has averaged over $220,000 per week, and sales of Zinc ore have been recorded 
at $55 per ton. 

The landowner usually leases to the miner, who pays from 10 to 30 per cent royalty 
upon the gross amount of ore produced. The lease costs nothing originally. The pros¬ 
pector, either by drilling or in sinking a shaft, commences the development of the land, and 
upon finding a body of “ pay dirt,” a concentrating plant is erected. This system has given 
to the small operator the greatest possible chance, and to such an extent has it been car¬ 
ried that the whole surrounding district is one succession of immense, white, waste, dump 
piles, in many instances representing a fortune made. The prospector is the most opti¬ 
mistic of men. He always has a fortune just in sight. This happy faculty makes the 
miners a most pleasant and agreeable class of people to deal with. The employee to-day 
expects to be employer to-morrow. Hence no labor troubles. " Strikes are unknown and 


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labor is well paid and of a most efficient character. All of these things tend to make the 
district attractive to the investor. 

Some years ago Zinc spelter was selling at an average of 7 cents a pound. At that 
time the best price that could be obtained for Zinc ore at the mines averaged $12 per 
ton. At the present time Zinc ore is selling at about $45 per ton, and spelter at 5f cents 
a pound. 

The increase in the price of Zinc ore in the year 1899 has been partly owing to the 
increase in smelting capacity, and hence greater competition among the buyers for the 
ore. In the early history of the district the smelting capacity was less than the ore pro¬ 
duction and hence the ore buyers for the smelter were enabled to fix their own prices on 
the ore. At present the smelting capacity is largely in excess of the ore supply. 

When ore was $12 per ton transportation facilities were insufficient and charges high 
for shipping ore to the smelters. All of the largest Zinc smelters are located at the coal¬ 
mines or gas-wells, as it requires three car-loads of coal to smelt one car-load of Zinc ore 
after it has been concentrated. 

Concentrating mills are located at the Zinc-mines, and ore-buyers purchase the ore 



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for the smelters for cash at the mines. As railroad rates gradually became lower, the 
ore-buyers were enabled to pay a higher price without interfering with the smelter’s profit. 

The crude and superficial mining of Zinc ore 15 or 20 years ago by individual workers 
with small capital, who were forced to sell their output for cash every week, has given 
way to a certain extent to corporations with sufficient capital to make the ore-producers 
somewhat more independent and demand a greater degree of recognition from the ore- 
buyers regarding the price of ore in ratio to the price of spelter or refined Zinc, making a 
more equitable division of profits between the miner and the consumer. 

The Zinc-producing business to-day is in better shape than ever before, yet there is 
opportunity for much greater development and improvement, which may be brought about 
by the displacement with modern machinery of old methods of mining. It may also 
be stated that since Zinc was first discovered, in the latter part of the Middle Ages, there 
has been no change nor radical improvement in the process of smelting ore. 

From the above description may be noted the necessity of careful selection in making 
investments, and the eight (8) per cent cumulative treasury preferred stock of the 
United Zinc Companies is commended to your attention. 


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EFORE making an investment in any Zinc stock the previous records of the 
mines should be fully looked up and one should also ascertain if the manager in 
charge of the property has had years of experience in the Joplin district. A 
mining company may make a good showing for a few weeks, but the physical 
condition of the property can only be ascertained by a careful review of the output of ore 
as published weekly in the Joplin Sunday Herald or Globe. It is usually best to invest 
in a company which depends principally upon a royalty for its income; that is, a company 
which owns the land in fee simple and leases to miners upon a royalty of the amount of 
ore taken from the property. 

The “ Conqueror ” mill illustrated on the previous page was first put in operation 
March, 1899, and for the succeeding nine months turned in 2,337,340 pounds of zinc and 
47,830 pounds of lead, which sold for $50,806.03, and paid the United Zinc Companies 
$10,161.18 in royalties. A second and third shaft which are in rich ore will increase the 
output of the mine in the future. This is only one of ten mines, located upon the 80-acre 
tract which cost the Company in fee simple $77,500, paying them a 20 per cent royalty. 

The Company own several other tracts of land in fee simple and lease to miners upon 
a royalty. A full description of properties and engineers’ reports can be seen at the office 
of the Company, 53 Ames Building, Boston, or 303 Main Street, Joplin, Mo. Further in¬ 
formation regarding the property will be mailed upon application. 


DONE AT THE EVERETT PRESS. 





JOPLIN DISTRICT OUTPUT, 1899- 

The Sale of Ores tor the Year and the Prices Paid. A Handy Table Showing 
the Price Each Week and the Average Price for the Year. 


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Average Price of Zinc Ore, $42.74 per ton. 

Average Price of Lead Ore, $26.33 per thousand pounds. 































































